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Q: Couldn't the Sox have signed Wacha and Lugo with better scouts?

That's not very nice. I feel mods shouldn't mock readers/Sox fans but that's just me. Admitting to mockery is not conducive to good message board business by mods IMO.

Quin named some for me.

Good post but the Royals who were horrific in 2023 were able to sign some studs for 2024. Same now with the Sox. Good manager attracts players if you have some $$.

Soto wants 700 million. The way ballplayers go on extended slumps nowadays since they refuse to cut down their swings with two strikes, instead they'd rather continue to try to hit a bomb or whiff on a ball in the dirt, I don't think any player is worth near that. You'd have to have rocks in your head to pay any ballplayer not named Ohtani 500-700 million. I don't even blame Jerry for refusing to pay those kind of contracts. Look at Judge. he was one of the worst players in the entire postseason and he makes 360 mill over 9 years. Wasted money.

True Lip, but we now have a good respected manager.

But do you like my plan if the owner was willing to dish out a few bucks?

I posted one somewhere. We have a great manager so give him 2 veteran free agent starters at 15 mill a year; one good reliever to add to our young group of pen candidates for 10 mill a year; add one power hitting outfielder at 15-20 mill a year and add a second baseman with a clue for say, 8 mill a year. Bring up Monte and Echo and u give the manager a chance to pull a Quatraro. Go with Sosa at third I guess unless u wanna spend even more and find a good 3B. All my plan takes is good evaluation of the free agent market and Jerry not wanting to lose 100 again.

Good question. We got a stellar manager so why not pull a Royals and acquire 2 GOOD starters, one good reliever (we have a lot of other guys to try around a good reliever), and also a power hitting outfielder and a GOOD hitting second baseman for starters? It might cost Jerry a little money but for gosh sakes spend enough to finish 20 under .500 not 40 under!! Or else get out of the business and sell the club please. So my plan would be 30 mill a year combined for the two starters, 15 mill for the good reliever and 10 mill for the good second baseman. Try to bring up Monte in May to play SS. And bring up Elko for some pop when he's ready. THank u. the new manager and his pitching coach can work with the plethora of young pitching talent to go with the two new veteran starters!

Vaughn might be able to get up to 30 if he keeps trying to lift and pull rather than find a gap now and then for a 2B.

Sale shoulda been our modern day Buehrle. Pitch for the Sox many moons.

Surprised it's not Beni. He's been very very bad though he did blast 20 homers I think. I won't call him "trash," a word that's been on all the news cycles. It's kind of dehumanizing word.

That's a fact. The Royals were struggling almost every time they played the Sox, boatraced the Sox to get back on track and regain confidence. By the time the playoffs started they actually had a good set of pitchers, not quite enuf hitters to go with Salvy and Witt. In fact the Royals lineup was not much better than the Sox lineup. It was lousy.

somehow tanking became popular especially with fans who love the unknown prospects. Then those unknowns grow up (Moncadas, Eloys, lol) and join the big league club and stink. Wait til next year is one of the best sayings in sports history. Cause tank teams entice their own fans by the promise of a great future with guys 2-3 years from making the big league roster. It's a good excuse for the team being as bad as the White Sox.

Good plan to make the Sox irrelevant forever. Three 100 loss seasons in a row and counting. Wowsie.

Dodgers have a gem in Kopech. They should keep him. In Chicago he was a home run machine but with a good organization he proved his value. Start him as a setup guy, close him once in a while. Or make him a starter. He should thrive in LA again next year IMO. Bullpens are so fragile. The Yankees' last two pitchers tonight, though overworked in the postseason, ran out of gas and both stunk. I guess Luke wasn't that bad considering he inherited bases loaded no outs in the eighth. But he had nothing left in the ninth.

Now that is an excellent post. That's worthy of mention during the broadcast but I doubt the announcers went there. In fact I know they didn't as I watched it.

And that is why you don't fire Dave Roberts after the disappointments. It's why you don't listen to the noise if you are a good GM/owner. Boone probably will get fired even though that roster was by no means dynastic.

Ray Ray with a top 10 post for the calendar year 2024. Nice post. This post is everything greg's been saying forever. Greg detests rebuilds or so called rebuilds! Hopefully our new manager will try to win some games with the hideous roster he 'likely' will have unless the Sox wake up and play some guys not named Sosa, Lopez, Beni, DeLoach, Fletcher, Julks, Ramos, Moncada, Robinson and get rid of Justin Anderson, Nastrini and other ineffective individuals on the mound.

Day two take: He's our best manager since Ozzie (duck) and he's a great choice. The fact a sensational candidate would take this job with a capable GM but horrible owner means he "probably" believes in our top prospects including several "allegedly excellent" moundsmen plus Monte and Elko and some others. He probably thinks Robert and Monte are stars in the making. And he probably has a feeling the Sox in this day and age can somehow rustle together a serviceable bullpen. In short, our new skipper thinks we can sniff .500 this year then go for it all the year after. We shall see but this means a capable baseball mind senses a plan. Otherwise he'd wait for a better team to offer him. GO SOX! GO BR!

We have a great manager now we have to hope he is one tough SOB. Tough to stand up to Getz and Jerry and any idiot in the front office that implies he's doing a lousy job when we are 10-35 next year. This team has no talent on its current roster except perhaps a couple league average guys, a few outstanding prospects like Monte and Elko, etc. But basically we are the laughingstock of baseball and our new manager has to have the guts to laugh in the face of his superiors if they refuse to improve the roster. Again, winning 55 games should get him manager of the year that'd be a 14-game improvement with a wretched team.

When I think of baseball I think of Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson. When they played, baseball was fun and exciting both. Then came analytics. Rest in peace to Pete Rose. The fact he's not in the Hall of Fame is par for the course in baseball.

Two guys: Witt and Salvy. Salvy had a great season, bad postseason. Our fans would have never wanted Salvy, too old like Abreu. Also Royals signed two "starting pitchers" who had great seasons and their bullpen guys were above average unlike the Sox wretched starters and bullpen. ... Also don't forget they owned the White Sox and the White Sox series came at perfect times for the Royals. They were starting to slip in each of them but sweeps of the Sox got them going again.

Any chance at victory? Fenwick seems elite. Why are we in 7A when Benet is in 4A or 5A and they have more students? Weird.

He's a decent reliever but basically just another guy in terms of a bullpen piece. Good at times. A HR machine other times. Probably worth about 10 mill a year.